I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving yesterday.
I hope some of you remembered it was also the day JFK was killed in Dallas.
I am currently reading two new books on the subject, one real and one fiction, "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'reilly and "11/22/63" by Stephen King (who was nice enough to keep his book down to 800-900 pages.) Actually, I started reading King's book and can't put it down, so O'reilly (is that how you spell his name? - rocket scientist will know) will have to wait until I finish the last 400 pages of King's.
I think I know how they both end. But you can never really tell with Stephen King.
O'Reilly.
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DeleteI'm reading The Au Pair, a story about a wife who falls for her kids' au pair. Hardly nutritiona for the old cerebrum but it's a page-turner.
ReplyDeleteAn aside; author Bryce Couternay who wrote a favorite of mine, Power of One, died today. I had been lumber
I must read that. (The second one) :)
DeleteBryce Courtenay was much mourned in this country. He was held in high esteem...he came across as very nice person. You will enjoy "The Power of One", I'd imagine, RM. Steven Dorff played the part in the movie version of the story and Daniel Craig (today's James Bond - and before he was known by many) played the cold-hearted, ruthless Boer.
DeleteI hope the book is better than the movie.
ReplyDeleteOne of these books is a movie already? Hmmmmm.
DeleteOh, I know what movie you mean, Rob. That Oliver Stone fantasy. Both of these new books are much better than that. Even King's fiction one is closer to the truth than Stone's imaginings.
DeleteI wonder if you knew that LBJ had JFK killed? He did, you know**. But not RFK (and certainly not MLK.) RFK was the work of the CIA in concert with the FBI (headed by JEH, in a dress, they say) as patsied up (a la Lee Oswald) in the person of Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan. Not to be confused with Sirisaac Newton, or even Huey Newton, for that matter.
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http://theintelhub.com/2011/08/08/jackie-kennedy-believed-lyndon-johnson-killed-jfk-as-evidence-of-johnson-complicity-continues-to-mount/
Power of One was also made into a movie. I've never seen it though.
DeleteMaybe that's the movie Rob means.
DeleteI don't know how to spell his name. I haven't watched TV for three years and have always had a problem remembering names.
ReplyDeleteNow, if the question was math related...
Math-related names? Not O-Ralley,for sure, then. I'm afraid I don't know any of those kinds of questions. Math has no place in modern society. Not since smart phones. I'm sure you'll agree.
DeleteLagrange once wrote "As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection." Both W.W.R. Ball and E.T. Bell bypass Euler to name Lagrange as "the Greatest Mathematician of the 18th Century." Jacobi bypassed Newton and Gauss to call Lagrange "perhaps the greatest mathematical genius since Archimedes."
DeleteArchimedes didn't really care.
Finished with King's book last night. I'll take a breather before I start O'Reilly's book which he says is based only on actual facts. We'll see.
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